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@Slevin - Haha, I know a couple of Jeep Wrangler people. That seems more like a lifestyle/exercise in masochism. I think I could get into that though. Would also solve the winter/pothole issues of the local roads. OTOH, they're kinda shite on the freeway or anywhere above 50mph, though, right? Agre...

I get cashews every so often. Mrs. Ego loves this vegan alfredo. Fifty pounds is a lot of alfredo. https://thevegan8.com/vegan-garlic-alfredo-sauce/ Will try this specific version for sure. Cashew Alfredo is like the first thing I made with the cashews, it’s always such a delicious creamy sauce (us...

My old jeep wrangler ( I don’t really drive it) is kinda a bad “car” (bad mpg, loud, meant for places without roads), but it has the incredible upside of having a good amount of engine room space, uses about three wrench sizes to take apart every single piece, is incredibly well documented, has ubiq...

I've continued to think on that thread re dopamine / environment hacking and structuring that. As a small aside, to try, I went to decaf coffee to see if micro implementations help.. basically anything to reduce noise on the nervous system. To be determined.. I think the changes like "alone in...

@theanimal sound delicious. Also sounds like one of those very dangerous since I’m not hiking the PCT anytime soon . Definitely gonna be great for snacks on hiking days / backpacking days this upcoming season!

My household has recently inherited 50lbs of cashew pieces, with many more 50lbs possible. If you have any good vegan cashew recipes / uses, please send them my way.

Also a heavily considered factor in the Okinawan blue zone (and the health of japans older population in general): Older Okinawans are active walkers and gardeners. The Okinawan household has very little furniture; residents take meals and relax sitting on tatami mats on the floor. The fact that old...

describe your intuition as an image. If anyone feels inspired, I would love to hear different images. An immense Dnd style gelatinous cube, that sifts through books, blog posts, videos, basically endless amounts of information, ripping out and collecting chunks / pages of information / ideas, then ...

Should we have a different thread for talking about the autism bits? Or are we just chilling with this thread as the place to talk about neurodivergence? As someone else who suspects ASD, but doesn't want to pay 3k-5k for someone to give me a sheet of paper... I scored 33/42 on RAADS, 38/50 on AQ, a...

Yes; I wonder if a certain level of boringness is a trait to be chased in people to listen to. Fame is apparently a helluva drug. To the monetization point… it’s tough. Staying relevant in social media often requires *constant* updates, which means constant development / maintenance of ideas, which ...

Yep, exactly the part that exhibited the response. And eh, I can get distracted and focus on pedantic details of what people say instead of the overall point sometimes; responses by me are a reflection of how I read the post. So if it was off topic of the main point of the post… my bad, happy to rem...

I will eternally enter these debates and argue for process oriented development. Goals are good guiding north stars, but they are not tactics, and they are eternally disrupted by the unfortunate fact that the ideal self isn't the actual self. It's important to have goals, but you also need to be abl...

https://www.marketwatch.com/livecoverage/pce-report-march-2024-key-inflation-reading-powell-remarks-awaited/card/powell-doesn-t-see-rates-going-back-to-ultra-low-post-2008-levels-znQqbochWkUiPvtp3L1O Hopefully that holds. Good riddance to ZIRP. This also means that housing held at 2.X% mortgages wi...

@thef0x sorry I’m a bit slow on the reply here, been chewing this for a while. Yes I pretty much agree with the outlook. Deep insane dives will output the most amount of gains, but tend to burn out compliance after short periods or unless you live like a “x” monk in a village where people also most ...

I’m apparently a few days late to the party… but oof, Huberman is looking pretty bad these days huh? I’ve long found him a bit too narcissistic for my tastes and his podcasts and recommendations to be more hype than substance, but this is a whole other other level. Really brings to bear the question...

I have no easy way to judge mental capabilities, but I definitely have a lot more trouble remembering words now than I did previously (and more brain fog sometimes). I'm not exactly sure if that's a COVID thing, or a concussion / brain damage thing. I definitely never recovered fully from covid in t...

Also, maybe, Salem? PS: I went to an ERE meetup in Eugene in 2011 or so. I met JD. What was your opinion on Eugene? I'm meaning to visit it sometime this year now that its a car / train trip away. Also, I had a decently long convo with someone recently who grew up in Salem. She said that it was kin...

The decently big cities in Oregon that aren't Portland all are viable around the 300k mark, while also being places in their own right. Eugene is basically correct for everything. Insane nature, a sizeable enough population to have anything going, can find rents as low as $500 for a 1bd/ 1ba, and is...

Shade buffer + frost buffer + SIP planter + gravity fed water storage + powered timer for watering seems like it would probably last for an ungodly long time while you are away (basically until the water runs out or the batteries run out on the timer). Based on buffers you could easily get ~3 months...

Well the market is back up now! And its too snowy outside to do anything else except pay off the mortgage anyways (wait, I don't remember if you are on the front range or not, but if not its probably snowy anyways).